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 The revelations in and reactions to former Trump advisor John Bolton's book. |
 Protests over who is honored in public space have spilled over from the American south to the Southwest, the Northwest, and the world. |
 Charleston officials are poised to remove a statue of John C. Calhoun. |
 TGIF | Video of the Week  Karen L. Cox and Adam Domby join the Museum of the New South to discuss Confederate memorials. | Today's Top Headlines - Trump Can't Immediately End DACA, Supreme Court Rules - How the Trump Campaign's Plans for a Triumphant Rally Went Awry - Stockpile of Emergency Medical Supplies Moving back to Health Officials' Control Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on.
 by Tim Galsworthy Invoking a sanitized and selective memory of Dr. King enables politicians and voters to trumpet order and exhibit faux outrage at disorder, rather than face up to endemic racial inequalities. |
 by Jill Lepore How government commissions became alibis for inaction. |
 by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The 1960s generation of Black protest demanded a stronger presence in local government. The current protest movement recognizes that presence isn't enough; leaders must advance an agenda that serves their least advantaged constituents. |
 by Melanie Newport Activists have supported protestors by contributing to bail funds, but it's time to follow through on the longstanding call of social movement leaders to abolish cash bail as a symbol and symptom of unequal justice. |
 by Daniel Lee The act of recovering perpetrators' voices sheds light on consent and conformity under the swastika, enabling us to ask new questions about responsibility, blame and manipulation. |
 by Gurminder K. Bhambra Protesters who dumped Edward Colston's statue into Bristol harbor have forced a long-overdue discussion of how the British Empire conquered and governed in the past and set the stage for racial divisions in contemporary Britain. |
 by Marcia Chatelain McDonald's has profited handily from its Black customers, while its presence in Black communities has led to a vexing set of circumstances for Black wealth and health. |
 by Keisha N. Blain Despite, or perhaps because of, their own vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence, black women have been key voices in the struggle to end it. |
 by Sean Wilentz Trump wants to copy Richard Nixon's "law and order" appeals, but may end up echoing Herber Hoover's violent crushing of the Bonus March movement. |
 by Jillean McCommons The Sanctified Hill disaster exposed the vulnerability of Black people to climate events due to a combination of placement and neglect. | 
Breaking News and Historians in the News Stay Up to Date! You can now receive a daily digest of news headlines posted on HNN by email. It's simple: Go Here! What follows is a streamlined list of stories. To see the full list: Go Here!  The digital map, which had attracted little notice outside of the New York Public Library, offers significant insight into the course of a pivotal Civil War battle. |
 Trump's anger at internet speculation about his health reflects a serious concern: perceptions of vigor and physical strength have long been influential in presidential politics. |
 One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths. |
 A new book of crime photographs by the late Gordon Parks reveals the photographer's art and his efforts to fight back against dominant and frequently racist ways of depicting crime and law enforcement. |
 Racial terror followed passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865. |
 Louisiana Senator John Kennedy proposed renaming every military installation for a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and said many non-Confederate leaders engaged in racist, misogynist, or otherwise hateful behavior. |
 Historian Richard Pierce: "Blacks can't continue to wait around to find an acceptable form of protest that will generate 100 percent approval on the other side, because that doesn't exist." |
 "I've been very fortunate in choosing the right topic." |
 From Virginia to New Mexico, protests over police brutality have brought hundreds of years of American history bubbling to the surface. |
 Historian Lance Hill suggests that the rise of Ronald Reagan brought many of the policies that animated David Duke's supporters into the fold of respectable Republican politics, killing Duke's efforts to run a civil rights group for supposedly oppressed whites. |
 New histories suggest that the notorious Nazi was less a twisted figure than a true believer in a long-standing movement to use science to prove racial superiority. |
 David Abulafia's book tells the global history of humanity through its relationship to the oceans. |
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